Controversial on-line influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate has been banned from Meta platforms Instagram and Facebook.
The broken-down kickboxer and reality TV well-known particular person was removed for violating Meta policies “on unsafe organizations and other folks”, the corporate confirmed by e mail.
Tate first rose to prominence after appearing on the TV imprint Nice Brother in 2016, when he was far from the assortment after a video of him beating a woman start air the imprint surfaced.
Since then, he has garnered backlash for his posts correct by scheme of social media, which home abuse charities maintain known as “vulgar misogyny”. He said on Twitter in 2017 that girls folk belong in the home and that rape victims “bear accountability” for their assault, after which Twitter completely banned him from the platform.
Tate has grown a following for his advice videos to males, many of them veering into sexist territory. On one YouTube video, Tate described himself as “completely a misogynist”. He said: “I’m a realist and whenever you happen to’re a realist you’re sexist. There’s no attain you would possibly presumably also additionally be rooted genuinely and now not be sexist.”
In an announcement to the Guardian, Tate characterized many of his videos as parody, bringing up he was “taking half in a comedic persona”.
“Web sensationalism has purported the premise that im [sic] anti girls folk when nothing will seemingly be extra from the reality,” he said, along side that he has donated to charities benefitting girls folk. “I am genuinely innocent.”
Tate was a vocal supporter of broken-down president Donald Trump and has appeared on a assortment of rightwing podcasts, along side reveals fancy Infowars, hosted by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Extra only in the near past Tate has turn out to be “very now not prone to steer clear of” on social media, and at the time of his ban from Meta platforms he had extra than 4.7 million followers on Instagram.
TikTok has additionally banned Tate’s official myth on their platform and is working to take yell connected to him that violates concepts. Videos the utilization of hashtags connected to Tate were viewed extra than 12.7bn cases. The UK advocacy group Hope Now now not Abominate known as Tate a “unsafe misogynist” and known as on extra social media companies to deplatform him.
“Misogyny is a hateful ideology that is now not tolerated on TikTok,” a TikTok spokesperson said. “We’ve been wanting down violative videos and accounts for weeks, and we welcome the information that other platforms are additionally taking action in inequity particular particular person.”
A outdated model of this memoir incorrectly reported that Tate’s myth was active on TikTok. It is miles now not. It was a parody myth. The memoir has been corrected to replicate that.